More people are biking to work than ever before. The number of trips made by bicycle in the U.S. rose from 1.7 billion in 2001 to 4 billion in 2009, and since the year 2000, bicycle commuting rates in large bike-friendly communities has increased by 105%.

Having spotted and mentored the founders of many hugely successful companies, including Google, John Doerr knows that organizations can’t wait when it comes to “the people stuff.” Doerr explains that hiring the right people is the most important thing any leader does.

This National Small Business Week, we celebrate the millions of small and mighty businesses who are innovating and driving the economy around the world. Find out what re:Work offers to help you make great people decisions for your company.

How important is the culture to the performance of an individual company? According to one Motley Fool, the answer is it’s very important and it’s part of what’s helped him beat the market over the last 20 years.

Even with the rise of people analytics, there is still a large gap between what organizational science recommends and what organizations actually do. Partnering with graduate students is one way to close this gap.

Hiring someone new is a critical decision for a team or organization, and every step of the hiring process contributes to the final outcome. Use these resources from Google to help you approach hiring in a fair and structured way.

On the 2.5-years-long Mars mission, it will take 22 minutes to send a message from Earth to the spaceship and then 22 more minutes to respond. To deal with these types of hurdles, NASA trains space and ground crews extensively on communication skills.

Our unconscious biases can help us make decisions quickly but sometimes they may lead us astray, especially when it comes to judging other people. When making hiring and promotion decisions, reduce potential unconscious biases by using these tools.

“CAPCOMs can really make your day.” This simple journal entry by an astronaut aboard the International Space Station (ISS) shows just how important communication can be to the success of a team orbiting hundreds of miles above the Earth.

Humanity’s working life only recently started revolving around large, centralized organizations. The future of work may look more like pre-industrialized work, in terms of how economic and social networks become more integrated again.

A team of Google researchers set out to prove that managers didn't matter. Their research didn't go as expected and their work changed how Google trains managers. Hear from one of the researchers about what it's really like to be a manager at Google.

Talya Bauer and David Caughlin, Portland State UniversityFebruary 02, 2017

How Human Resource Information Systems (HRIS) is taught hasn’t changed much in decades while workplaces have undergone a technological and data revolution. To prepare future business leaders, we have the opportunity to rethink how business schools teach and leverage HRIS.

Tune in February 2nd at 11am PT to learn from Google's People Development team how Google uses data to support and develop managers. Bring your burning managerial questions to have them answered live on the air.

Gender parity at work is an issue everywhere, not just in a few specific countries. The McKinsey Global Institute suggests that aiming for progress, rather than perfection, by looking to neighbors for best practices may lead to quicker solutions.